On December 22, 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act, which allowed for the repeal of the 1994 federal policy that barred LGB people from serving openly in the military. As President Obama remarked during the signing of the bill, “No longer will tens of thousands of Americans in uniform be asked to live a lie, or look over their shoulder in order to serve the country that they love.”